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Document Engineering for Web Services and e-Business

Description

Web Services depends on XML documents that can be understood by the parties (or applications) that wish to do business. But where do these documents come from?

[Part of the San Francisco Web Services, XML & Business Event Series]

Speaker

Bob Glushko (bio), Adjunct Professor at the University of California at Berkeley and an Engineering Fellow at Commerce One

Presentation Overview

Web Services depends on XML documents that can be understood by the parties (or applications) that wish to do business. But where do these documents come from?

"Document Engineering" is emerging as a new discipline for specifying, designing, and implementing these XML documents and the business processes that produce and consume them. Good Document Engineering practice emphasizes the reuse of existing models or patterns, which can be found at both the implementation level in the form of EDI and XML libraries and also at the conceptual level in terms of common business processes and the organization of activities between businesses.

Document Engineering is being taught to graduate students at UC Berkeley and has been successfully applied to problems of significant scale, including efforts to develop an enterprise data architecture for the e-Berkeley initiative and the Universal Business Language.

About the Presenters

Bob Glushko

Bob Glushko is an Adjunct Professor at the University of California at Berkeley in the School of Information Management and Systems and an Engineering Fellow at Commerce One. He founded or co-founded three companies, the last of which was Veo Systems in 1997, which pioneered the use of XML for electronic commerce before its 1999 acquisition by Commerce One.